1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Madagascar
Hong Kong, Macau
1.3 Total No. Of Countries
1.13 National Language
Comoros, Madagascar, Mayotte
China, Guangdong
1.14 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.16 Speaking Continents
1.18 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hawaii
1.19 Regulated By
Not Available
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
2.3 Interesting Facts
- Malagasy language was originated in southeast Asia, since it shares several common words and meanings with Indonesian Languages.
- About 93% of the basic vocabulary is of Malayo-Polynesian origin in Malagasy language.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
2.4 Similar To
Not Available
Chinese Language
2.5 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
3 Alphabets
3.1 Alphabets in
3.2 Alphabets
3.4 Phonology
3.4.1 How Many Vowels
5.2.3 How Many Consonants
5.7 Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
5.8 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
5.9 Hard to Learn
5.9.1 Language Levels
5.10.2 Time Taken to Learn
9 Greetings
9.1 Hello
9.2 Thank You
9.3 How Are You?
9.4 Good Night
9.5 Good Evening
9.6 Good Afternoon
9.7 Good Morning
9.8 Please
9.9 Sorry
9.10 Bye
9.11 I Love You
9.12 Excuse Me
10 Dialects
10.1 Dialect 1
Eastern Malagasy
Guangzhou
10.1.1 Where They Speak
Merina
outside mainland China
10.1.2 How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
10.4 Dialect 2
10.4.1 Where They Speak
10.4.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00NA
700
80000000
10.8 Dialect 3
10.8.1 Where They Speak
10.8.2 How Many People Speak
11.3 Total No. Of Dialects
13 How Many People Speak
13.1 How Many People Speak?
NA60.00 million
0.13
1200
14.9 Speaking Population
14.10 Native Speakers
18.00 million52.00 million
0.13
873
15.3.4 Second Language Speakers
16.7.4 Native Name
Fiteny Malagasy
Kwang Tung Wa
16.7.5 Alternative Names
Malagasy Sign Language
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
16.7.6 French Name
16.7.7 German Name
Malagassi-Sprache
Not Available
16.8 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
16.9 Ethnicity
Malagasy people
Not Available
17 History
17.1 Origin
17.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
17.2.1 Subgroup
Austronesian
Not Available
17.2.2 Branch
17.3 Language Forms
17.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
17.3.2 Standard Forms
standard Malagasy
Standard Cantonese
17.3.3 Language Position
17.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
17.4 Scope
Macrolanguage
Not Available
18 Code
18.1 ISO 639 1
18.2 ISO 639 2
18.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
18.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
18.3 ISO 639 3
18.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
18.5 Glottocode
18.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
18.7 Types of Language
18.7.1 Language Type
18.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Object-Subject
Not Available
18.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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